>The best available treatment that at the beginning of the outbreak in our hospital, included the use of hydroxychloroquine/azithromycin therapy [23,24,26]. How

>The best available treatment that at the beginning of the outbreak in our hospital, included the use of hydroxychloroquine/azithromycin therapy [23,24,26]. However, taking into consideration more recent data on the safety and efficacy of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine in small randomized clinical trials, case series, and observational studies this treatment is no longer considered effective [32] in treating COVID-19. calling it the "standard of care" in the present tense is very disingenuous. it was briefly considered to be effective at the beginning of the outbreak. it was determined relatively quickly that it was not actually an effective treatment. this has nothing to do with politics.